West Midlands SQL Server Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the SQL Server Developer role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Server Developer
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	93	114
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	30	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	1.000 %	0.776 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£285
Average daily rate	£278	£298
% change on same period last year	-6.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£329
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£32.75	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-18.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.50	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.88	£36.73
% change on same period last year	-18.65 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3001	3349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.057 %	3.303 %
Daily rates quoted	750	771
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£326
Average daily rate	£343	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	296	469
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.60	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£21.09	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
SQL Server Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL Server Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the West Midlands region.

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the West Midlands region.

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SQL Server Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+14	6	£375	+7.14 %
Coventry	0	2	-	-
Warwickshire	+4	1	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-

SQL Server Developer England

SQL Server Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with SQL Server Developer in their job title.

1 59 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 39 (66.10 %) SQL Server 2005 3 27 (45.76 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 25 (42.37 %) SQL 5 23 (38.98 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 20 (33.90 %) .NET 7 19 (32.20 %) NHS 8 18 (30.51 %) SQL Server 2000 8 18 (30.51 %) ASP.NET 9 17 (28.81 %) C# 9 17 (28.81 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 14 (23.73 %) Transact-SQL 11 13 (22.03 %) Datawarehouse 12 11 (18.64 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 10 (16.95 %) Microsoft

14 7 (11.86 %) Migration 14 7 (11.86 %) VB 15 6 (10.17 %) OLAP 15 6 (10.17 %) Crystal Reports 15 6 (10.17 %) Visual Studio 16 5 (8.475 %) ProClarity 16 5 (8.475 %) DTS 16 5 (8.475 %) MS Excel 16 5 (8.475 %) Business Intelligence 17 4 (6.780 %) BusinessObjects 17 4 (6.780 %) ETL 17 4 (6.780 %) Health 17 4 (6.780 %) Cognos 17 4 (6.780 %) Business Objects 17 4 (6.780 %) HTML

SQL Server Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with SQL Server Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (33.90 %) .NET 2 18 (30.51 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (6.780 %) HTML 4 3 (5.085 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 2 (3.390 %) CSS 5 2 (3.390 %) ASP 5 2 (3.390 %) XHTML 6 1 (1.695 %) AJAX 6 1 (1.695 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (1.695 %) SOAP 6 1 (1.695 %) WebServices 6 1 (1.695 %) XML 6 1 (1.695 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (8.475 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 59 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 39 (66.10 %) SQL Server 2005 3 27 (45.76 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 23 (38.98 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 18 (30.51 %) SQL Server 2000 6 17 (28.81 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 13 (22.03 %) Datawarehouse 8 11 (18.64 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 6 (10.17 %) OLAP 9 6 (10.17 %) Crystal Reports 10 5 (8.475 %) DTS 11 4 (6.780 %) ETL 11 4 (6.780 %) BusinessObjects 12 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server 2008 13 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server 7 14 1 (1.695 %) ReportNet 14 1 (1.695 %) RDBMS 14 1 (1.695 %) MS Access 14 1 (1.695 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 6 (10.17 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (6.780 %) Health 2 3 (5.085 %) Finance 2 3 (5.085 %) Retail 3 2 (3.390 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.695 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 19 (32.20 %) NHS 2 1 (1.695 %) W3C 2 1 (1.695 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 2 (3.390 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (11.86 %) Migration 2 5 (8.475 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (5.085 %) OOP 3 3 (5.085 %) Web Design 4 2 (3.390 %) UML 4 2 (3.390 %) OO 4 2 (3.390 %) SEO 5 1 (1.695 %) Validation 5 1 (1.695 %) Scrum 5 1 (1.695 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.695 %) OOD 5 1 (1.695 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (1.695 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.695 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (1.695 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.695 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (1.695 %) Data Migration 5 1 (1.695 %) Data Mapping	Programming Languages 1 25 (42.37 %) SQL 2 17 (28.81 %) C# 3 14 (23.73 %) Transact-SQL 4 7 (11.86 %) VB 5 3 (5.085 %) VB.NET 5 3 (5.085 %) JavaScript 6 2 (3.390 %) Java 6 2 (3.390 %) VB6
Vendors 1 10 (16.95 %) Microsoft 2 5 (8.475 %) ProClarity 3 4 (6.780 %) Business Objects 3 4 (6.780 %) Cognos 4 3 (5.085 %) Teradata